Diverse Writers China

Monday, April 13, 2015

By:

Wing Yi Chan

Over the next few months, Writers Victoria will be running our Diverse Writers CHINA project to connect with and support Chinese-Australian writers and writing.

Diverse Writers CHINA aims to provide skills development, profile and commission opportunities for contemporary Chinese-Australian writers. It also aims to benefit the broader literary sector in Melbourne and beyond by uncovering a cohort of previously marginalised Australian voices and stories.

This project builds on a number of interactions that Writers Victoria has had with China and Chinese-Australian writers, including: hosting the Asian-Pacific Writers Forum at the 2014 Melbourne Writers Festival (August 2014) and our participation in the 2014 Marco Polo Festival of Digital Literature in Melbourne and Beijing (August and September 2014).

If you are from a Chinese-Australian background and are interested in writing, we’d love to know:

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